Clasping device



Dec. 14,1926. v 1,610,905 J. WALDES I CLASPING DEVICE Filed Dec. 22, 1924 duo/Mfrs l atented Dec. 14, 1926.

JINDRICH WALDES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

OLASPING DEVICE.

Application filed December 22, 1924. Serial No. 757,332.

My invention relates to clasping devices and more particularly to clasping devices in garters, hose supporters, and the like whereby the stocking or other garment is gripped to hold it in place upon the wearer. These devices generally comprise a depending tab, a stud carried thereby, and a clamping member for clamping the fabric of the stocking or the like upon said stud. Up to the present time, the studs, in most instances, have been constructed as part of a metallic element through which the tab is threaded; such an arrangement presents the disadvantage that it is required to thread the tab through said metal element which takes time and thereby increases the costof such clasping devices which is further increased by the expense in cident to the production of the metal element; the arrangement further is objectionable be cause the metal element, at least at its edges is exposed to contact with the skin of the wearer and thereby presents the possibility of injury to the fingers and other parts of the person of said wearer. The object of the present invention is to provide a novel device which, in addition to overcoming the abo-.*e mentioned disadvantages and objec tions, constitutes a more satisfactory and efficient clasping device. The invention will be fully described hereinafter and the features of novelty will be pointed out in the claim.

in the accompanying drawings, which, without defining the limits of the invention, illustrate an example thereof as applied to garters and other forms of hose supporters, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a garter with the novel clasping device embodied therein; Fig. 2 is an enlarged front view of the device and the tab by which it is carried; Fig. 3 is a rear view thereof and Fig. 4t is a sectional view on the line 4--i of Fig. 2.

As shown in the drawings, the garter or hose supporter may be of any conventional form and comprises a band of suitable material, either elastic or non-elastic as desired, which may be made adjustable as to length in the well known way, through the medium of a slide 11 to which one end of the band 10, in such case, is attached and through which said band passes; a connecting member 12 of any suitable type is secured in the looped end of the band 10 in the customary manner. The other end of the band 10 is permanently connected with a pad 13 of suitable dimensions and material on which an attaching member 14 of any usual form is located for cooperation with the connecting member 12 to detachably the garter in place upon the le of the wearer.

The novel clasping device comprises a stud located upon a carrying member illustrated in the form of a folded. tab 15 made of fabric or equivalent material, and depending from the'pad 18, and a cooperating clamping member 16 connected with the pad 1.8 by means of a flexible connection 1'? so as to depend therefrom in surface parallch ism with the tab 15 as shown in Fig: 1. The stud comprises a stem 18 passing through one of the folds of the tab 15 and a discshaped base 19 of less diameter than the width of the tab 15, in surface engagement with the rear surface of said tab, it being understood that the stem and base may com prise integral parts of a unit or independent elements properly fastened together and that said stem may be either solid or hollow. A sleeve 20 preferably of rubber is mounted upon the stem 18 in engagement with the front surface of the tab 15 and is fixed in place as the result of the friction of the fabric 15 when the sleeve compresses that fabric against the base 19, as for example by turning over or upsetting the free end of said stem 18 as shown at 21 in Fig. 41.

In the preferred form the rubber sleeve 20 is formed with a reduced inner neck (I, and an enlarged outer head. Z), it being understood that in some cases the head may comprise a part of the stem, in which case the sleeve 20 may be of simple, tubular form. In

any event, the normal axial length of the sleeve 20 is such to cause pressure of its under surface against the outer surface of the tab 15 and the upset end 21 of the stem 18 or its equivalent which tires the device in place upon the tab 15 should be so arranged as to enforce this pressure This, when a rubber sleeve is used, results in bulg ing the peripheral surface of the neck a outwardly as shown in Fig. 4 and forces the base or inner end of said neck 0; into engagement with the surface of the. tab 15 under pressure; the tab is thus securely clamped between the disc-shaped base 19 and the sleeve 20 and a frictional engagement of high degree is developed between the tab and the sleeve 20 which, among other things, prevents tire sleeve 20 from rotating upon the stem 18 and also distributes the strains to which the device is subjected in use, in a manner to reduce to a minimum the tend ency of the stud to be torn out of tha it will further be apparent from an inspection of Fig. i that as the result of the pro-- cedure described the peripheral portions of the outwardly and downwardly turned outer edge of the stem 18 embed themselves in the outer part of the material constitutingthe sleeve, causing physical displacement of such material in an axial direction, thereby result ing in a structure in which the sleeve is firmly bed in position between the fabric or ca 1 H member 15 and the turned over head :21 of the stud 18. in the preferred arrangement, the tab 15 is of two-ply formm tion for instance by being doubled back upon itself, the small-diametered disc-shaped base 19 being located between said plies and being completely covered to prevent said base, i. e. either its flat surface or its edges from coming into contact with the skin of the wearer.

The garter is connected with the stool in the conventional manner by placing; the

tab 15 inside thereof and then forcing the clamping member 16 over that partof the stocking which lies over the'stud; in this way the stocking is securely connected with the garter which is worn in the usual way by being fastened about the leg; through the medium oi the connecting member 152 and the attaching member 14.

Because of the fact that the sleeve 2-) is under an arial compression and the neck a thereof is accordingly bulged outwardly. the clamping member 16 cooperates tl erewith to develop'a clampingaction of maximum ciency upon the stoc ring whereby the latter firiily held against any shifting on the stud. The frictional engagement e31 tine; between the sle vs 20 and the tab 15, which as previously stated is generally of fabric or equivalent material, is such that the s e 20 is positively held against rotation on the stem 18 and the latter with its base 19 is tired against rotation relatively to the tab the arrangement positively serves to prevent the development ot, or neutralizes. strains which tend to tear the stud from the tab. The novel clasping; device is simple in construction and is easily and quickly attached to the tab or its equivalent and does away with the necessity for any threading oi? the tab through any element of the device or sewiji the tab together to prevent slidi 52" or shi thereof;

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. he costof production of the device and of its attachment in operative position is thus materially reducer.

i iny convenient method may be followed in combining; the stud with the tab. For inance, the tab may first be pierced to form a hole through which the stem 18 is inserted. The rubber sleeve 20 is then placed over the stem and the free end-of the latter is .ized rubber, wood, hard rubber,

upset, by means of a suitable press or its equivalent, to the sleeve in position on the stem and to place it under an axial compression as hercinbeiore set forth. As previously stated, the base 19 and stem 18 may be made in one piece and in such case may h constructed in any well known manner for instance from flat, sheetstoclr, it being un derstood that the stem may be hollow or tubular to facilitate the upsetting oi the free end thereof. The stem may be, however, oi solid form and the stem and the base may be separable e.- :ments, as may i o the stem and its upset end. In these latter cases, the stem will ol' viously be headed or upset against those elements which correspond to the base 19 and/or to the head 21. Furtheri zore the device may be used in connection with hose supporters of the general class in- 'licated, such for instance that type which s found in existing corsets, Jrassieres, and he like.

lo facilitate the handling and use of the novel device, a plurality of studs, constructed in accordance with the invention, may be .i'nounted, at spaced intervals. upon continuous lengths of tab material and sold in, this form, instance ll rolls, to the trade. Such lengths of material, equipped with the studs, could then be cut inte predetermined sections for use as required. The shape of the sleeves 20 or the cooperating contour of the clasp 16 may be round, oval, r any desired shape, if the sleeves are oval, for example, two or more stems 18 may be used to secure each such sleeve against one or more base plates. The sleeves 20 may be made of any suitable material includii besides the preferred compressible Vulcan-- and other i it substances.

Various changes in the specific to shown and described may be made w the scope of the claim without from the spirit oi? my "aventiou.

I claim:

clasping device comprising a carrying member, a stud associated therewith. and a resilent sleeve mounted on said stud and exercising pressure on the carrying member, said stud compri I a hollow stem passing through said carrying member and through the sleeve, a base at onoend of said stem contacting with said carrying member, and a head formed by turning: the material of said stem outwardly, port ons of said outwardly turned material being embedded in the sleeve by physical displacement in an Xill direction of partof the material constituting said sleeve, the sleeve being thereby firmly held in position between said head and said carrying member.

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